We took the International train from Amsterdam to Berlin for a 4-day trip. I love photographing street art, so what a treat! Unfortunatley my bag got nicked in the train on our way back to Amsterdam with my wallet and camera in it, so all my digital photos are gone. At least I still have a strip of photos from the photo booth …
To refresh my memory I collected photos from the internet (all are credited to their rightful owners) to tell my Berlin story.
We stayed at OSTEL, a GDR-design hostel in Berlin, near Berlin Ostbahnhof. The interior takes you back to the East Berlin of the seventies and eighties. Loved it! The squeeky, saggy bed and the noisiness because of thin walls and doors not so much.
Cover photo credit: Hannah Wayte, hannahandtheworld.com
Photo credit: OSTEL Hostel Berlin, ostel.eu
On our first night in Berlin we ate Marquee de Fuck Burgers with Fuck You Fries at White Trash Fast Food. The morning after we had the best coffee and porridge at 19grams. We had sandwiches for lunch at the too-hip-for-us Parker Bowles Restaurant. I read somewhere the best Schnitzel of Berlin can be eaten at the Schwarzwaldstuben, so we did. Factory Girl served us paninis and gooey white chocolate ganache cakes, yum! Not pictured are coffee and Porridge of the Gods at Spreegold and Currywurst at the Fleischerei.
Photo credits: Corinne, ifpushcomestoshove.blogspot.com / Jillian Wheeler, thisweeksroommates.com / Sara, findingberlin.com / Kara, karalp.wordpress.com / Eva, eighty7.nl
Below is the entrance to 19grams coffee. All of Kreuzberg’s first floors were covered in graffiti, an interesting fenomenon, but exactly as I’d imagened Berlin to be.
Photo credit: Mario Münster, shutterstock.com/de/blog
The East Side Gallery is an international memorial for freedom. It is a 1.3 km long section of the Berlin Wall. The Gallery consists of 105 paintings by artists from all over the world, painted in 1990 on the east side of the Berlin Wall.
Photo credits: Filip Demuinck and Kristel Pardon, filipdemuinck-kristelpardon.blogspot.com / Mark Conway, markconwaytravel.blogspot.com / tuxboard.com / Annika, annika-the-sequined-troll.blogspot.com
In Berlin everwhere you look you see a piece of street art. The artwork below is done by French street artist JR in 2013 at Auguststraße.
Photo credit: Thomas Offinga, medium.com/@thomasoffinga
We’re not very fond of memorials and monuments, but hey, we were in the neighbourhood. Brandenburger Tor, Reichstag, Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and the Berlin Wall Memorial.
Photo credits: Magnus Manske, commons.wikimedia.org / Pedelecs, commons.wikimedia.org / Odysseus Journal, 0dysseusjournal.blogspot.com / David, andberlin.com
Double rows of cobblestones now mark the course of the Wall over 5.7 kilometers in the center of the city. At certain intervals, there are metal plaques in the ground bearing the inscription: “Berliner Mauer 1961–1989” (Berlin Wall 1961–1989).
This plaque is at Checkpoint Charlie, the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War.
Photo credit: Jon Jensen, erin.zayda.net
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